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Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 11

Zak Greant's Mozilla Foundation report for March 16th to March 22nd, 2008.
See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional Mozilla Foundation reports.
This Week

Focused on reports and conference follow-up. Will be making individual reports an most of these activities and events as time permits - first priority is following up with [...]

Recommendations for OpenLogic's Open Source Census

Last week, I was excited by, and then disappointed with, OpenLogic's Open Source Census project –  while the project has promise, OpenLogic planned to license the complete data set only to project sponsors (and I didn't feel that they were being very forthright about the matter.)
Stormy Peters, OpenLogic's community manager caught up with me to [...]

Posting my OSI Weekly Reports

A couple of weeks ago, I promised to post weekly reports on my OSI activities. I've done that, but not on my blog — it turns out that I have a blog on the Open Source Initiative website, which I am using for my weekly reports.
To keep up to date, visit http://opensource.org/blog/zak

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eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing

Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference.
The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified version of my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
The second session will take a little bit more [...]

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Joining the Open Source Initiative as a Board Observer

I just realized that I never formally announced that (as of January 9th, 2008) I have joined the Open Source Initiative as a board observer. This is an unpaid position without voting privileges.
The role of board observer is quite loosely defined; it feels much like being a member of an open source project where you [...]

April Fools Comes Early This Year

April Fools` has just now swept over the Eastern coast of North America and already hoaxes and jokes are spread thick and heavy across the web. Of course, it makes sense that European websites are already posting April Fools' jokes, but I'm not sure if what seems early to me is just an indication that [...]

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Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain

Back in the misty reaches of time — just before the last millennium turned, to be precise — four smart people got together to write about the growing gap between companies and markets. The result was called "The Cluetrain Manifesto", a cogent and plainly-written set of theses about how the Internet changes some of the [...]

Open Source Census Results Not Open Source?

Earlier today I wrote about the Open Source Census project, wondering what license the data collected would be distributed under.
After reading the sponsorship page for the project, I believe that OpenLogic intends to restrict distribution of the data gathered, as indicated by the following quote from the page:
Platinum sponsorship is designed for companies that want [...]

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Open Source Census

Stormy just pointed a mailing list that I subscribe to at the Open Source census project.
At a glance, the project looks well thought-out — software, documentation, legal agreements, FAQs and so on are all in order.
The only thing that jumps out at me as missing is a notice about what license census data will be [...]

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For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference

In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]

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